Ranged weapons - Range increments and size categories


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One of the earliest oddities I found in D&D was that a dagger thrown by a pixie has the same range increment and maximum range as a dagger thrown by a titan.

Should range increments and/or maximum ranges for projectile and thrown weapons be modified by wielder's size?

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Those pixies are expert dagger throwers!


Maybe another invisible pixie is "propelling" the dagger along?

but indeed, it seems a bit odd that a Titan already looses accuracy after a distance about the length of its forearms...

as a quick rule, the range increment could be assumed for creature of 5ft reach, and adjusted proportionally for larger and smaller creatures.

Example.
2.5 ft. reach = 1/2 weapon's range increment
10 ft. reach = x2 weapon's range increment
15 ft. reach = x3 weapon's range increment
0 ft. reach = ... this is where my logic fails...

'findel


Laurefindel wrote:
Maybe another invisible pixie is "propelling" the dagger along?

It isn't a pixie propelling it along, and the pixie never even throws the dagger. He/She hands it off in an elaborately disguised motion to an invisible (albeit endangered) Quickling who then runs the dagger at 90 foot a second with a charge!

Those clever fairy folk!

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